ddjojo27's reviews
100 reviews

Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Thank you, NetGalley!! 

After finishing this book I had to reread the description to make sure I read it right. This book is so slow and if I wasn’t listening to the audiobook, I would have put it down, and never picked it back up again. The dog's death was so unnecessary. This book is marketed as twisty but it wasn’t it. I hate to rate a debut author so negatively but it was so slow and a little boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Suicide

Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Piñata by Leopoldo Gout

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

The Christmas Cafe by Eliza Evans
Did not finish book.

This one’s on me, I knew I wasn’t going to like it but I still started it. Sylvie use your words girl. 

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This audiobook is something. It felt cheesy, the weird sound effects and the singing took me out of the spookiness of the book. It would be this big build up then singing, and it just lost all it momentum. It also didn’t feel like a Shirley Jackson book it felt like a book that a college theater kid wrote after watching the tv show.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

3.0

Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth

slow-paced

2.5

Holy crap is this book slow. 

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book was not for me. I thought I was over-hating Twilight but this book brought up all my hatred I had in the 6th Grade for Twilight. Why was this book marketed as a thriller?